Earnings, cash flows and security returns over long return intervals: Analysis and UK evidence

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 26, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 283-312

  Charitou, Andreas ^a,b   Clubb, Colin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 13644273659     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5957.00257     Document Type: Article

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